Marking for knife pleats. The knife pleat is considered to be the most basic pleat. You create a fold in the fabric at a predetermined width, and press in one direction on the right side of the fabric. Unlike other types of pleats, knife pleats always travel in a gang.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: transient (Noun). Something which is transient. transient (Noun). A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
In general a surge is a transient wave of current, voltage or power in an electric circuit. In power systems in particular â and this is likely the most common context that we relate surges to â a surge, or transient, is a subcycle overvoltage with a duration of less than a half-cycle of the normal voltage waveform.urges are generally measured in microseconds. Every piece of electrical equipment is designed to operate at a specified nominal voltage such as 120 Vac, 240 Vac, 480 Vac, and so on.